Has Every FIFA World Cup Been Fixed?
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- Whether it be the 1934 World Cup which was held in Italy under the reign of Benito Mussolini or the 1978 World Cup which took place in Argentina just two years after a military coup, there has certainly been no lack of controversial FIFA World Cups.
But the closer you look at almost every World Cup, the more accusations of corruption, match-fixing, and bribery that you will find.
So in this video, HITC Sevens does just that, for every World Cup, to try and find if every FIFA World Cup has been fixed or if any can actually be deemed legitimate. - Sport
Honestly, Alfie making that five hour video on every world cup scandal would be the greatest thing ever, though I understand his health and sanity take priority
He could make it into a podcast. Each episode being one world cup.
Maybe even his security
For the German speakers that would love such an excessive podcast: there's a 4hour interview with Jens Weinreich on Jung&Naiv, basically covering FIFA corruption since the Blatter era. There they state "we would need an 8 hour podcast to cover it in more detail"
@@matt6806 nein🥺💔
Alex Jones has been correct on many things people had previously thought "conspiracy".
The 2002 WC was so blatant. The referee of the games involving South Korea was later charged with accepting bribes and corruption in his home country.
No - he was charged with 'accepting bribes and corruption' BEFORE the Tournament! Which is why FIFA employed him to do their dirty work.
Drug trafficking as well
Dude got caught with a few pounds of heroin strapped to his body
Didn't Italy have three goals written off during this game ?
@@stephenboyd4934 and they were also shafted in a group game in that same WC
"Who served as a corrupt FIFA president " you say that like there ever was a FIFA president that was not corrupt
Exactly
Sir Stanley Rous was not corrupt, just a racist!
I heard a horrific story about the Argentine junta during the '78 Cup. After Argentina's semifinal victory, the military put some of their political prisoners in cars and drove around Buenos Aires. Even though the prisoners were plainly visible through the windows of the cars, people were celebrating Argentina's win so much they didn't notice them. The junta then told the prisoners, in effect, "See? They don't care about you!"
This is why I’m disgusted whenever I see the three stars emoji, a military dictatorship killed your own countrymen but it’s justified cause you “won” the World Cup that year
who cares?@@breadmakesyoufat2403
@@breadmakesyoufat2403 You're talking about things you know nothing about. No one here makes that argument, no one justifies it cause of the WC. That is a preposterous and frankly offensive statement that you pulled out of your ass.
Aside from that, you can argue about the Perú match, but otherwise the team and what they did on the pitch had nothing to do with the military dictatorship.
If every World Cup has been fixed England clearly hasn’t been bribing FIFA enough.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Or they’re being out-paid by the other teams
They're already did long time ago 💀
Think Eurovision song contest.
Anyone think Britain will win that anytime soon?
1966
No mention of England having the rules changed mid-tournament to continue playing at Wembley? Utterly shameless. The refereeing in 1966 was the most corrupt I can ever remember. It was, quite simply, a fix from start to finish.
the Irish...haha
Spot the Irishman pulling conspiracies out of thin air. He's probably right each world cup has a similar amount of corruption as all the others.
Funniest thing is they still cry about the disallowed goal vs Germany. Karma is a b*tch
yeah right. you irish by chance.
Let's not forget german and british referees officiating England and West Germany semi finals respectively. Not suspicious at all.
The 2010 host bidding process was also corrupt, with Morocco actually winning the right to host the tournament before a 'deliberate miscount' gave it to South Africa
Go the blues
@@Forteonyoutube haha
I was really surprised he didn't mention that. 2010 was also the worst world cup ever in terms of the football played.
@@areebsiddiqui758 agreed! Worst by far. The jabulabi made for the most ridiculous goals, keepers had no idea how to read long shots
@@dannydevito5729 I loved that Ball , it was like watching a Football animé in real life
Another aspect about the 54 WC was that West Germany was a new country and one who's success would tacitly prove the capitalist system of that country was far superior than East Germany and communism in general. You can't understate the symbolic stakes of success in a global context of West German in a post WW2 early cold war world. In that context I'd say the dubiousness of that victory is increased. It's probably easy to forget that context in 2022.
They beat Hungary in final,Hungary absolutely anihilated them at the start of the tournament
As if someone needed to fix a football match to show the world how grim communism was. You don't think the tens of millions of deaths under Mao and Stalin told the story more eloquently? You don't think the hundreds of billions that West Germany had to pour into East Germany after communism collapsed told the story more eloquently? You don't think the hundreds shot trying to escape over the Berlin wall said all that needed to be said?
@@daleviker5884 Yeah i do agree with you on that,but my opinion is media make everything that those types of country does sound like a crime against humanity but they never talked about the crime against humanity that countries like united states and france are doing,that's why so many people don't know how disgusting the governments truly are
Thanks for demonstrating my point about people nowadays perhaps not understanding the historical context of what things were like at the time, most obliging
WORLD CUP 1966: After Portugal and England reached the semi-finals, the game between them, which was originally scheduled for Liverpool and where Portugal had already played twice, was rescheduled by FIFA to London (Wembley). So, Portugal had to travel by train from Liverpool to London while the english team rested peacefully. In fact, England played all its matches at Wembley during the 1966 world cup.
They did the same in WC 70 in Mexico. Brasil was supposed to travel to play against Uruguay, but FIFA made Uruguay move to Guadalajara to play against Brasil
Just like Portugal played all their matches in the same stadium in Euro 2004.
Or France played all their matches in the same stadium in France 98
@@johnmitchell2269 Portugal did not play in the same stadium. Here you go, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2004#Group_A
Portugal would have won in 1966.
@@johnmitchell2269 France played in 4 different stadiums in 98 and Portugal played in 3 in 2004. How did you manage to get that so wrong
Hey Alfie, didn’t Franz Beckenbauer admit that the west German team had “been injected with something unknown that gave me energy” in 1974 after admitting that they intentionally kept the pitch grass longer than fifa regulation to mess up the Dutch?
Also, Cruyff didn’t really “decide” not to be apart of the 1978 WC. His home had been robbed at gun point and faced threats of kidnapping less than a month before he was supposed to leave.
And match between West Germany and Poland(before the game both team had a 4 point in the second group stage) should be postoned. After rain pitch transformed into swamp.
Cruyff is a legend of the game but I've noticed in the build up to and during this World cup that people are using the myth that Cruyff "decided not to play in 1978" just to make today's players look bad about playing in Qatar for this one
@@rohithraman6488 I would have preferred there not to be a World Cup in an oppressive regime that would arrest me for existing, but even his autobiography clarified that it wasn’t the politics that kept him from playing in the 78 World Cup
@@Nerdznewznow I get that, but I've seen people who have said "Cruyff is a man who stands by his convictions, he refused to travel to the 1978 World Cup cause of the Argentine Junta" just to make the current players feel bad about going to this current tournament
@@rohithraman6488 And it was a huge mistake that almost damaged his legacy. Imagine if Rensenbrink's winner in the final had not hit the post; no one would remember his cause for not going, but they'd all know that the Dutch won the World Cup soon as they were without him. That would've taken him out of the top tier of legacies in an instant
Sorry about making a suggestion for another video, but could you potentially do one on the Munich Air Disaster, the team before hand and the influence of people like Tommy Taylor and Duncan Edwards, and how they rebuilt the team and made, although eventually lost, the 1958 FA Cup Final?
Seems surprisingly he hasn't covered this. Seems like something he would have covered already!
@@NZStudent1 I mean I could have just not seen it, but I'm almost certain he hasnt
@@NZStudent1 possibly because its a very well known story already
So almost every WC was somewhat dodgy off the pitch, while at least half have been dodgy on the pitch, including all of Germany’s and Italy’s victories.
Sky have done a fantastic documentary called Busby that basically is the video your asking for check it out 😊👍
Alfie's dodgyometer is the best thing I will hear today and it's only quarter past nine
Same mate.
It's a little bit dodgy though. A few of these should have had higher scores.
In 1966 you missed that the semi-final between England and Portugal was moved from Goodison Park to Wembley so the English didn't have to travel at all. I would give it an 8/10
20/10
Eh, 3/10, no cheating on the pitch just off it as opposed to some other instances of corruption.
1966; Semi final England vs Portugal; Engalnd switched the stadium where the game should be played on the day of the match. English players rested peacefully while portuguese players had to travel by bus for hours befor the game.
Scummy off the pitch but at least no cheating on the pitch. Other examples on this list been far worse.
In retrospect and surprisingly, the 2018 WC in Russia was real good.
Russia was high on PEDs
Found the final a bit anticlimactic but other than that tons of good games
@@joshuasim4861 tbh it was still a better final than 2010 or 2014
@@vsvishal8853 Doubt it. Because they struggled against two relatively old teams - Uruguay and Croatia. If anything, PEDs would have given them massive advantage against these two.
Then against Spain they had miserable possession and pressure. So not a sign of PEDs either.
And finally before the war Russia and Croatia played a super important WC qualifier and Croatia barely edged a 1:0 home victory. So, like, basically confirming that result of their 2018 WC game was more or less accurate.
So no signs of PEDs really. Not super good physically. Struggled against old teams. 4 years later in a super important game got more or less equal result as at WC in 2018.
@@tomashalusek9181 Liverpool have plenty of evidence of clenbuterol and peds. This season has been one of their cycling off periods
I realised FIFA and UEFA were totally corrupt before I was 10, about 1978, nice to see everyone is catching up
And what age did you work out that the earth is flat?
@@daleviker5884 Imagine trying to deny that the 1978 World Cup wasn't rigged
Pretty sure you weren’t the only one back then
@@PeruvianPotato Peru is claimed to be a great national team. I don't say they are not, but one thing was the 1970 WC team and another thing was the 1978 WC Peru team. They had lost to Brazil by 3-0 and by Poland 2-0. The 6-0 result was obvious to happen due to Argentina being one of the finest teams in the Cup. Argentina itself lost to Italy in the group stage and at the Final we had to go to extra time due to the Nanninga equalizer at min 80... And in the 88 min we almost lost the game due to a goal situation that ended up hitting the goal post...
@@SBPau2024 Except when you take a look at recent matches between Peru and Argentina before the 1978 Match, they usually resulted in 3-1s or equivalents. Even then, their 1978 wasn't half bad since they managed to rank 1st in the group, even managing to outrank the Netherlands who'd later end up in 2nd place. Doesn't exactly help that Argentina needed exactly 4 more goals to beat Brazil and many players reported that the Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla actually visited the Peruvian locker room between the first and second phases of the match.
I could name other suspicions such as the Peruvian coach (Marcos Calderón) not choosing players with better records such as Hugo Sotil, Guillermo La Rosa and Percy Rojas in favor of less experienced players more often such as Rodulfo Manzo, Raúl Gorriti and Roberto Rojas, the Argentine government suspiciously sending boxes of grain after the match to the Peruvian dictatorship and players such as José Velásquez and Germán Leguía giving their own personal testimonies on what really happened in the match. Did I also mention that the 1978 between France vs. Argentina was also rather suspicious?
Great upload as always Alfie.
Just one thing though - you mentioned that Italy withdrew from qualification for the 1958 WC but they actually lost out to Northern Ireland who defeated Italy in Belfast.
In 1950 Brazil were struggling to qualify behind Yugoslavia in their group (only group leaders progressed) and a Yugoslav player was injured taking the field before their match with Brazil. The Maracana was still being built, and players had to cross a building site to reach the playing area, where the injury took place; however the bent Welsh referee refused to allow the injured player to immediately go to the changing room for treatment. The Yugoslavs were told the team all had to attend the National Anthems, and the injured player went for treatment AFTER the game had started. Brazil had scored before Yugoslavia got their full 11 on the field. The referee's subsequent remarks about 'communist' officials trying to tell him how to run a game do indicate political bias.
This channel is just a pure limitless football library. Enjoying everything you're putting in here👍Keep them coming Alfie
Semifinal in 1966 between Portugal and England was rigged as well. One day before the game they changed the stadium, relocated portugals team, so they couldn’t prepare nore have a proper rest before the game
Addition to the 1934 WC:
I believe that Italy only qualified for the worldcup after Greece retreated. The Greek FA were then "gifted" a HQ by italy, which is still the seat of the Greek FA today.
No, Italy qualified, unlike England or Germany
@@NoName-hg6cc yes and no. Italy was pitted against greece in qualification. Greece did not even play the return leg and italy qualified. Nevertheless, HQ was gifted to them, basically simultaneously
@@matt6806 Italy won the first match 4-0, Greece give up knowing they would never win. Unlike Germany and England Italy, as the host, had to qualify and actually play to win
@@NoName-hg6cc to your other claims: Germany qualified, having played all games. England did not even enter the qualification... wherever you get your football stats/facts from, drop that site
@@matt6806 Germany didn't have to play any game to qualify for 1974 or 2006. Nor did England in 1966
Why are you lying when it's easily refutable?
1966 was definitely a fix.
I watched this yesterday and can't stop thinking about:
Ex FIFA president: "1966 and 1974 were rigged for their hosts and both had some of the shoddiest refereeing of all time"
-Haha lad's being cheeky, simple as, no proof of anything, cheerio.
Argentina stomps the almighty Peru, at home, Peru playing for nothing and Argentina for everything, and the only sussy thing about that match are the giant amount of conflicting accounts on how it supposedly got rigged.
-9/10 rigged.
As a Dutchman, the 1978 world cup final loss is still hard to swallow given all the decisions that went against us. Also, you mentioned around 22:10 that Cruijff decided not to play (which prompted the other star player, Van Hanegem, not to play either). The reason Cruijff didn't play was a failed kidnapping attempt and a threat by Videla that if he played, it wouldn't fail next time. Talk about fixing and targeting star players.
What a team that was as well. Shame
@@sbnqy Yes, after the lost final in 1974, this could have been redemption. But it wasn't to be, FIFA and Videla had allocated the winner already before the tournament even started. At least, that's my view on it.
I'm sorry for you. Netherlands deserved a World Cup in the 1970s. So did Hungary in the 1950s.
@@niels9203 agreed Iv started to really notice the corruption in football over the last 10 years and now Iv been turned off watching football and sport in general
@@sbnqy It's a lethal combo of greed and corruption. Club football is basically dead. Everybody knows that with the money involved, PL clubs will continue to get richer and the rest will be fighting over scraps (and PSG of course). Occasionally maybe Real Madrid or Bayern will be able to win a CL but on the whole, it's done. PL will continue to create a bigger financial gap between themselves and the Bundesliga, Ligue 1, the Primera Division and Serie A. So international football is all that's left and that's become so corrupt I can't really view that as a level playing field either anymore. It hurts me that (professional) football interests me less and less. But you're right, it's sports in general. It's not like the Olympics is any less corrupt than FIFA.
I'll name two trivia things that I was suprised weren't mentioned:
1962 Chile - Italy was refereed by Ken Aston who, after that match, created Yellow and Red Cards as he felt he needed those to control the game.
1990 Argentina - Brazil water thingy is all but confirmed to have happened by Argentines themselves (Maradona and Ruggeri come to mind).
Other than that it is a great video, with points that I'm sure everyone will try to discuss (heck, I do) but that serves as a nice review of the past. I'd also like/love to unearth some of the stuff that 1938 had to offer off the pitch (Germany was denied to host it but promised/lied to host it next time, as next time also included South America and England and you couldn't have 3 world cup on the same year, afaik), but I guess that's a request I'll happily wait.
It was actually Ken Astons wife who came up with the system btw.
As an American fan, I'm pretty happy to see USA '94 given one of the best scores in this list and I tend to agree, that there's been little conversation about corruption related to that tournament, other than the "why did you award the tournament to such a soccer minnow" pre-tournament sentiment. But once the teams, fans and officials got here, they realized that the reason you do that is that the US, of all countries, had the facilities and the know how to put on such an event and all of that talk was quickly forgotten when they saw the size and enthusiasm of the crowds that attended. The fact that Major League Soccer was born out of it and that the US has a much, much stronger team, player development structure and soccer culture in the aftermath was one of the great successes of that endeavor.
WC 1994 was indeed corrupt.
Brazil should've been eliminated by the Netherlands but the ref went out of his way to award them a very dubious victory on goals scored after an offensive foul was ignored as well as two offsides (one of them so obvious, a blind man would've given it).
In the semis, the ref again ignored an obvious offensive foul to allow Brazil to score against Sweden.
As for the final: Italy had to cross an entire continent and play Brazil (who stayed in California) at 12:00 noon!
The officiating at WC 1994 was the worst until 2002.
@@johngurlides9157 Any WC and really just about every soccer match has questionable officiating decisions like these, though, which is why Alfie for the most part didn't include them as they can just as easily be chalked up to human error as to corruption. SK/Jpn is the exception because there were revelations after the fact indicating that the refs were bought, and because the hosts were so clearly the beneficiary.
That's because both are anglo countries, they are not gonna give themselves a bad reputation. As always, no evidence of rigged WC, only myths and rumors.
@@polkanietzsche5016 Is it only Anglo countries that care about their reputations? That doesn't ring true.
Thank you Alfie, this video gives me peace after Saturday.
Honestly I love Alfie for the fact he does his research diligently and quickly
You’ve missed a big scandal in 1966, the semi final was supposed to be at Goodson Park, which was close to Portugals base, then the FA moved the game at the last minute to London
Nothing beats the intelligent and sarcastic tone of HITC 7s
Meh. He's too arrogant considering he's wrong often
Hi Alfie, Loved the video, but the section around 8:46 regarding face offs between Italy and England is highly misleading. 2 of the victories were 10+ years after the '38 world cup, so they are not exactly relevant to that WC edition. The only England victory over Italy somewhat close to the '38 world cup was in '34, where they famously broke the Italian central defenders foot in the second minute and scored all 3 goals in the first 12 minutes, when he was just casually walking around the pitch with a broken foot, because his team players did not know about his injury; subs were also not permitted. In addition, you mention that Austria was regarded as one of Europe's strongest teams, still they lost 4 of the 6 matches against Italy in the 1930s, among which the final of the 1936 summer olympics that Italy won as well.
As per the use of Italians born in Argentina, it seems like stricter rules prohibiting switching of national teams were only introduced in the 60s, so them playing for Argentina first and for Italy a couple of years later was not illegal, since they did hold Italian citizenship.
Worst referring mistakes ever I would like to see a video on that
no one mentions Qatar cup where the ref called a throwin but the ball went over the end line and caromed of the signage boards to the touchline signage boards
I love how everyone glosses over the Costa Rica disallowed goal in 2009 that would have sent them to the World Cup over Uruguay, and then Uruguay goes on a miraculous Semi Final Run.
Link?
@@IWTBF FIFA banned footage of the game, it’s pretty hard to find on the internet
Wow I didn’t know that
Graham Polls refereeing in the Australia vs Croatia game in 2006 was the worst refereeing performance in football history, so bad it was suspicious. Australia had 3 clear penalties disallowed and Croatian Josip Simmonic (who was actually born and raised in Australia) was given 3 yellow cards before being sent off.
As a Croat I absolutely agree. The 3 card incident was a fiasco.
I remember this game
I think this is a great video to show how off the pitch corruption would hurt on the pitch play back in the day, this video also shows that corruption off the pitch is still influencing who where the World Cup can be played.
Your content is amazing. Thanks 🙏
This was an excellent video. Imagine us Austrians potentially being double world cup winners 🙈. That would probably have changed the whole perception of the sport here and set us up for continued success over the years.
19:31 this time period sounded weird to me as I was sure he was FIFA president when I was a kid, so I looked it up: he was president from 74 to 98, not 88.
Regarding Gijon 82: this does not fit the term "fixed" in my opinion. Fixed means that the outcome was predetermined by participants actively working towards a certain outcome.
For Gijon 82 both teams knew that a certain result would mean that they both would progress and when that result came to be they decided to not exert themselves to change it. Was it a disgrace? Yes. Was it fixed? Possibly but not certainly.
If that means "literally fixed" for you then the Spain vs Japan group match at the ongoing 2022 world cup was also fixed since Spain decided they did not want to win the group in order to get into the easier side of the bracket (not that it did them any good) and they basically lost to Japan on purpose and thus knocked Germany out of the tournament in the process.
FIFA really needs to change that teams know in advance how the bracket will look like after the gtoup stage. They need to have a playoff draw after the group stage like the champions league has.
Austrians had no chance against Italy
Agree with the playoff, that would also make the games way, more interesting, like 16 round is soo predicable and lame
It's up to the group stage format. Happens in every sport. Olympic ice hockey has seen those multiple times, most commonly exercised by Sweden (to get less harder competition until the final), this year Spain tried this and it backfired.
Okay the earlier world cups sound more like a schoolboy-ran tourney rather than an international tournament. From the looks of it, the organizers went with hearty doses of nepotism and corruption. I get the feeling little has changed since then. They just got better at marketing the shiny bits and obscuring the unsavoury bits.
For the 1958 WC, there is also the story of the Algerian players of France that is interesting. The Algerian War began 4 years prior, but in France, the media minimised what was happening, so a few days before the WC began, 9 Algerian players who played for France (+1 who was arrested at the border with Italy), went to Tunisia instead to play for the team of the National Liberation Front (FLN), the main organisation who fought for Algerian Independence, some willingly, such as Rachid Mekhloufi, but other, such as Moustapha Zitouni a bit less (he was willing to go, but also scared of the consequences).
The French press didn't talked about them, the French Federation (FFF) pressured FIFA into banning other teams to play against this Algerian team, to no avail since they played in a competition against other Maghreb countries. Those countries were also having troubles to register in FIFA competitions because of French pressures.
Another story, much darker, about Algeria is some consequences for the players of '82, who after being injustly eliminated, were given strange substences by a Soviet doctor during the competition, that, alleged by those players, led to many of their children to being born with disabilities.
Such sad stories for a team that saw really good players and moments (such as the WC 2014, and the match they nearly won against Germany)
Q: "Has every World Cup been fixed?"
A: Yes, definitely
One name Eusebio (The black panther) I still can not wrap my head around how few people talk about him I think it was 1966 Portugal was robbed. I wonder if the true harm of these tournaments is that it has carried on into the present. We really dont know who the best were because they played favourites and were corrupt from the beginning.
What about the WC that England bought in 66?
Nooo, we dont talk about that one 😉
@@FranciscoGonzalez-ss3sk lolllll
One of your best. Thanks!
(written before watching)
Given that everybody somehow knew that Argentina would in 2022 months in advance, and they were still favourites after losing to Saudi Arabia, I'd say it may have been a bit iffy.
And it had to be Messi and Mbappe (ie the changing of the guard) in the final. The officiating in the France-England game was absolutely atrocious and biased, which was necessary to get France through.
Argentina got so many penalties too, I would give it a 6/10 rigged scale
Add 2022 whole aregentina run was just refree favouring aregentina giving penalties to make messi win world cup
I remember Maradona reportedly saying back in 1998 after the second set of first round matches during that year's particular World Cup that it was set up so that host France would win.For some reason I decided to believe him, perhaps because of his sketchy side and possible knowledge of how the underworld worked.He turned out to be correct .
the entire history of football is 100% fake and rigged these are actors imo
Same with Argentina this year
@@jasminbesic7266 There was nothing sketchy about Argentina except a penalty against Australia.
@@uruloki2758 nl, france, aus, poland pens and argentina vs netherlands
@@Down915 All legitimately santioned. And how can you complain about a penalty against France when they got two, one minutes away from the end nonetheless.
Argentina’s run to the final with this being Messi’s last World Cup, who happens to play for PSG, who happens to be owned by Qatar, is definitely suspicious lol
And to not put all the eggs in the basket they had Mbappe in France.
Hello I come from the future.
After seeing the final match and how France and Argentina played, I can confirm both of these teams deserve to be there.
Messi and Mbappé are just that awesome.
Well why didnt they rig it for Neymar? And Mbappe was also playing in the final.
@@Charles-gk7xx cause like i said, ITS MESSI’S LAST WORLD CUP
Argentina was the best team. Cry more.
Thank you for all of your most intelligent, funny and well documented videos: you are a true champ, so hats off to you.
With regards to the content, I would probably have added three instances all involving Germany: 1. They lost to the GDR in 1974 to avoid a second group stage with Brazil, the Netherlands and Argentina. 2. The semi-final in 1974 should never have been kicked-off due to the unplayable surface, which helped the Germans, but not the Polish team. Again, they were awarded a most dubious penalty. 3. Doped in 1956, awarded a dubious penalties in the semi-final and final of 1974, given another dubious penalty in the final of 1990 against two man down Argentina (thanks to Klinsmann's theatrics), they won three titles cheating for all the world to see. Almost four if the Italians had not put an end to their disregard for football in 1982. There is funny story to the aftermath of the 1982 final: each German team member was entitled to an award: (Bundesverdienstkreuz zweite Klasse) Order of Merit 2nd Class for reaching the finals. Even in Germany, particularly after the non-game against Austria and the brutal foul by Schumacher against Battiston in the semi-final, the mood was such that should they get the reward, the Italian team should get the Order of Merit 1st Class for stopping the Germans ...
I like how you went into details about how hosts were being favored in some tournaments but you skipped over how England were being massively favored in 1966. How they would change venues to have their matches as Wembley, some times even making changes in the last minute. How the FIFA president was a biased English man. You were so vague with the 66 World Cup lol
Every World Cup is RIGGED. Italia & Espana get screwed so Korea is in the Semis of a Cup held at Asia, what does FIFA mafia do? Award Italty & Spain as winner of next 2 World Cups. Germany had to take a back seat so wins in 2014. France winning at Russia was a symbolic tribute to the peak of Napoleon's empire. Now Argentinian Pope FRANCis celebrate his 86th birthday on 12/17/2022, a day before Argentina win their 1st title since 86' vs FRANCe!
Few of the incidents mentioned here constitute "fixing." And many if not most aren't even "dodgy." Teams boycotting, wars or plane crashes preventing teams from participating, or host nations having unsavory political systems don't make WC's illegitimate or rigged. There have been plenty of shenanigans at WC's, many of which weren't even mentioned in this piece. It would have been best had this video confined itself to looking at these.
Because WC can be rigged on and off of pitch
2002 basically ruined a Italian Golden Generation... a lesser version of this won the World Cup 4 years later. Also the Spanish squad was really good too, Morientes/Raul were arguably the best strike force in the world at the moment just behind what Brazil had
So that explains why Real shipped him out to Monaco on loan and then sold to Liverpool 2 years later after he spent 2 years doing fuck all.... He was good, I'll give you that.... But half of "arguably the best strike force in the world at that moment"... 🤣 Dude....
@@uniquefreak13 how to tell someone you dont know ball without saying it
Honestly it may've been a strong squad on paper, but it wasn't anywhere near well gelled or coached compare to 2006 and wouldn't have won it all anyway
Italy wasn't good enough to win the 2002 world cup. Germany beat South Korea with ease and Brazil was way better than Italy. Go watch it again...
@@doubled3344 when did this become a thing? Saying ball for football.
It sounds American not saying its a bad thing.
At least all of argentina worldcups have been fixed. Including this one.
Cope
Sorry, no evidence 🤣
FIFArgentina for you 💀
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The officiating in 1966 was certainly very suspect. Not just the final (Hurst's two non-goals in ET, of which the first didn't cross the line and the second was during a pitch invasion), but other matches too. Two English referees ensured that defending champions Brazil were dumped out of the competition at the group stage (Pele received no protection at all and had to be stretchered off). Then in the quarter-finals a German referee officiated England v Argentina while an English referee officiated West Germany v Uruguay, which ensured the remaining two South American teams were eliminated (in the England game Argentine captain Antonio Rattin was sent off in a particularly bizarre piece of refereeing...).
It's ensured not insured.
@@61js Yes.. good to know that robbery didnt go unnoticed. Also, as with the dubiuos red cards for Argentina, the uruguayans suffered many red cards as well. I think that the president of FIFA at the time was english.
Hurst's goal did cross the line. Both were perfectly good goals
The ball was just over the line and it was known back then, but you have to see the high definition movie film from ground level looking straight along the line and not from an angle, which does exist but has rarely been shown in documentaries. You cannot make a decision based on the fuzzy black and white TV pictures that are always shown, as the image is just not clear enough.
Referees have always used their discretion to allow play to continue when people encroach on the pitch during play, as at the 1972 European Championship final when hundreds of Germans were on the pitch.
south korea in 2002 was the cringiest thing to watch...
Really enjoyable video... informative and unbiased. My only criticism would be that I don't understand the rankings of dodginess. For instance, how was '82 an 8 for a fixed game that kicked out a team that would never have won the WC and some bad refereeing, and '86 was a 2, which contained the infamous hand of God that sent Argentina through and they went on to win the whole tournament? There's bad refereeing at every WC, even today with VAR. But good to see it's harder to get away with modern technology.
Getting suitable results isn't necessarily fixing, it's falls into the category of cheating more. That Gijon match was pretty much repeated at Euro 2004 by Sweden and Denmark. But yes, '78 and '38 are pretty crystal clear and everyone knows the reasons. Every tournament played in history of mankind across sports presumably has scandals and errors.
I was at the Italy game that was playing whilst the Sweden Denmark game was on at the same time. I was sitting in the small group of Italy fans that could be bothered to travel to Portugal. When I heard the Sweden goal had gone in I celebrated like it was England, shouted "you're going home" and legged it!
I'd like to imagine every World Cup is a written TV show with multiple writers.
100% world cup is a script organized by fifa with the players being nothing more than athletic actors, there is no debate here, for anyone who thinks otherwise you are deeply asleep my friends
Rich people make bets on matches
@@TheWiesnak All the world’s a Stage. Sports are legally called “Sports Entertainment” for a reason. Ratings, power, bribery, corruption, money, and wealthly corporate interests all drive influence in the major sports. ⚽️, 🏀, 🏈, ⚾️ , 🏒, 🏏, 🏉, etc etc.
@@TheWiesnak I wonder how/when the players first find out, and how do they take the news. Is everyone in on it? Or just the officials and a few key/star players? Are they bribed? Threatened? Selected and groomed as children for their sports roles? What if someone decides to go off script or spill the beans? If it's true it's amazing how they've been able to orchestrate it and keep it under wraps all this time.
@@xXPureMetalXx no threats or bribes, its not necessary as that comes with the territory, the clubs pay the players their checks so that takes care of the bribe part its like any other job relationship between boss and worker, and yes they groom them from kids so all the players know is soccer, its not just their job its their life, all their friends are in those circles so its everything they know which takes care if the threat part, remember players go on to become coaches, commentators etc. most players start at 10-15 years old and when you program a child at that age they will live out that programming forever, especially if it gives them fame and millions. i believe the players find out before the match and only know the soccer of their game thats why, using uruguay as an example, when korea went up 2-1 on portugal and suarez found out his tears were real because he only knew the result of his game. perhaps only the top dogs know in advance like i believe messi knew he will lift the trophy from day 1. yes all the players are in on it
Somehow Argentina is the center of all the underhanded doings.
Lmao cry harder
Nah, just western conspiracy theories.
You can't rig a world cup if your team sucks ass, that's why always the same countries win it.
@@a.j.c.908cry more cry more cry more.... Didn't learn any new comment to copy paste?
FIFArgentina been doing that since day 1💀
This time Argentina is fixed by qatar
the 1978 world cup was fixed!
Ofcourse 74 also. And we seen 2022 also. Victim Netherlands
Hey alfie. I would recommend reading up on the Diego story of the doping scandal at the 94 WC, in almost certainty the entire controversy was a ploy to screw him over and push FIFA's image of a credible organization working against steroid use, as it was a recurrent theme at that time especially in the USA. All this controversy killed the career of one of the best to ever play, screw FIFA. And the USA too while we're at it.
I mean maradona was buddy buddy with castro those days. Was not a puppet of fifa so yeah it can be a conspiracy against him. That 94 Argentina team was more stacked than 86 and 90 teams and would have won in 94 and also in 98 alass they met a great Dutch team in the quarters.
@@bhutochakrabarti4173 what you say can add a chapter to my comment: If Im not mistaken its deeper than that, Maradona asked fifa to make a syndicate to give better salaries to players, he had some issues with italian mafia, he was a napoli player a team which belong to the south of italy a team for the poor side of italy, he used to beat the rich teams, italians didnt like that shit, which leads to the next weird moment: in 1990 he and most of the Argentina players agree that they were asked to lose against italy in the world cup semifinal hosted by italy, Argentina didnt give a fuck and won the game, so this dumb decision cost Diego to be out of 1994 world cup. I dont think Maradona was the only athlete ever to be doped, roids are the most common shit in professional sports, they wanted him out, as simple as that.
@@sofarsogod True. Not to mention maradona wanted a world where football was not controlled by authoritarian figures like fifa uefa. The fact is he refused to become the poster boy for corruption like Pele and that's why media tried so hard to destroys his image .
Whether FIFA or IOC slightly favoring hosts is the norm. It is gambling related fixing that is shameful and corrosive.
"Slightly favoring"
„I will give them all a sussines rating“ are words I did not think I’d ever hear from you
In England 66 the semi final England played against Portugal was supposed to be played at Anfield Road but both teams agreed to play in London because the stadium was bigger.
Some people say that the FA was afraid to play in Liverpool because the city was too supportive of Portugal.
And others say that the Portuguese federation who agreed with the change to London received money because in 67 they bought their headquarters.
load of bollocks
@@allenlaw9145
Those are facts if you want you can check and if you don't. You don't. Easy as that.
In Euro 2020, they did again because of controversies about diving against Denmark.
Scousers ain't going to be supporting Portugal. You're off your tits.
@@silviofelix1991 they arent facts bro the match was originally supposed to be played at Goodison Road not "Anfield Road". In fact there is no stadium called Anfield Road in Liverpool these are the facts. You can check it. Or not
In 1966 we'll never know if the ball did or didn't cross the line? We can all see it didn't. I think this video is slightly biased.
If it’s Portugal vs Argentina final then I’m going to go ahead and say this one is certainly rigged.
Why though? Neither Brazil nor France are unbeatable.
@@soundscape26 he is saying because ronaldo and messi are in the final . its not so about countries but about superstars who have sponsor deals with football merchandise companies and other companies. remmeber the easy penalty argentina got against poland. And ronaldo penalty against ghana...
@@kingpietro1279 Ah, but things aren't going that well for Ronaldo as he should be benched against Morocco once again.
Still a Mbappe x Neymar final isn't too shabby. And let's not forget England is still there as well.
@@soundscape26 memeing mostly xD but that seems to be what everyone’s saying, and I agree, neither are unbeatable and there is a very strong likelyhood that could actually be the final.
Messi vs Ronaldo in the Final is such a crazy game, but in 2009, this was a scandal.
Didier Drogba should be played against Cristiano Ronaldo, not Messi, in the UCL Final.
You should have mentioned the Chile vs USSR match for the 1974 WC, since you have made a video about it, too.
In 1954, you forgot that a player literally died on the pitch and came back to live. Hojberg, a Uruguayan player tied the game against Hungary after being 2-0 down with just minutes to go. After scoring, and the fatigue that all that caused, the player fell on the floor and when the medics got to him, he was at the moment declared dead.
However, he somehow came back to life a few seconds later and refused to leave the pitch, coming back to play the Extra time.
Effort that wasn't enough as Uruguay would lose 4-2 to Hungary in extra time
What has that got to do with match fixing?
Best player for Argentina is Messi, Best player for France is Mbappe, Best player for Morocco is Hakimi. All play for Qatari owned PSG. Something not quite right there
Ziyech is best player Maroc
@Waso Are you sure? He's more creative. And I'm sure Hakimi cost £60 million and Ziyech £27 million.
@@thedoc225ify Ziyech I know personality, maybe I think with friend glasses ;)
Add the 2022 one to hit. It was rigged.
Which calls?
@@GalacticNovaOverlord Messi goal vs France.
@@GalacticNovaOverlord Everything about it.
@@Jbeggarok i get it
Not sure, but the latest one has for sure. Argentina gifted a penalty every game.
Only one of all those calls was dodgy.
Players shouldn't do legal fouls in the penalty area
3:31 I like how they're meant to be spelling Viva Uruguay, which is 11 letters long, and got it wrong
The 10th field player screwed it.
The biggest fix that I remember was in 78. The game Argentina national team vs Peru national team.
Argentina need it 5 goals to advance against Peru and at half time game was tie 0x0 and was a very close game; second half Peruvian players stop attacking and Argentina score the goals that they need it to advance. Coincidence the goalie from Peru was Quiroga and Argentinian playing for Peru national team.
Definitely some happened at half time break in the dressing rooms.
The Victory by Argentina made them advance on goal difference against Brazil 🇧🇷 and what is still amazing Brasil was the only undefeated team team with more points and never got to the final game.
Go figure?
End of the story..Argentina beat Holland in the final and won their first WC.
We needed 4 goals, and Peru had lost to Brazil and to Poland a few days before the 6x0...
You are wrong in everything, Argentina needed a 4 goal difference victory, at half time Argentina was winning 2-0 and not only Peru had a lot of chances and a hit in the post, there wasn't one but two penalties that were not awarded for Argentina.
And last but not least, until this day a lot of Peruvian players at the time say that nothing weird happened that day.
Argentina had one of the best squads in the country's history, some say even better than the 86 and 2022 squad, so keep crying mate.
@@leandrociarrapico9256 Siguen vendiendo humo estos anglos del orto. Fíjate cómo hablan de los supuestos arreglos de los mundiales pero nunca mencionan el mundial de 1934 y 1938 de Mussolini o el mundial de 1966 comprado por Inglaterra. Siempre hablan de los robos de otros países o demeritan el país huésped.
@@leandrociarrapico9256Why does google and other sources say different tho? You are Argentinian so your opinion doesnt count. You rigged every possible world cup and everyone knows that. 😂
1958 Was played in Sweden and Sweden came second in that world cup.
The hosts always do well and Sweden were a strong side in 1950 and 1938, finishing in the top 4 both times. Remember they weren’t affected by war and Sweden was one of the best teams during the 1940’s as well
Gunnar Nordahl was Swedish and still is AC Milan greater scorer of all time.
He played in the 50's so they probably had a good generation too.
@@silviofelix1991 alongside his Milan partners Liedholm and Gren
@MegaWunna Sweden were really good back then though. You should look up Gre-No-Li. After that, you should look up Kurt Hamrin and Lennart Skoglund. They had a great side. Gustavsson, Svensson, Simonsson, Axbom. They truly had a great team. Like Hungary 4 years earlier, they are one of the most underrated teams ever.
They were in an especially good position 1945-1960 compared to other European countries because Sweden were relatively unaffected by WWII.
@@harold5337 Not to mention, a lot of that team won Olympic gold in 1948 (Olympics was seens as a more prestigious competition at the time and is still considered the precursor to the World Cup).
Alfie I just looked at the ligue 2 table and am flabbergasted that Saint Etienne are bottom. Can you please do a video explaining why they’re there. Thanks so much🙏🏼
I don't think anything is deliberately fixed beforehand because there are too many things left to fate on the pitch that you can't control. However, the host nation at a World Cup has always had an advantage, not only playing in front of the home crowd but also the pressure it puts on referees. They also normally have a relatively easy first round draw and if assistance is needed it is usually provided; for example, England playing all their games at Wembley and West Germany in 1974 playing their decisive second round match on a pitch that was disadvantageous to their opponents, instead of postponing it.
Everything is controlled by frauds
2002 Was definitely the most blatant one in my view.
The whole world witnessed how referees rigged the games in favor of South Korea. Not even subtly.
I really thought that 2022 would be the same for Qatar, because if Qatar even TOUCHED the Ro16 then I woulda called bullshit
A Spain vs Brazil final in 2002 (I am pretty confident that Spain would have defeated a very average Germany team in the semi finals) would have been the dream match up.
A prime Ronaldo Nazario up against half of his Real Madrid Galacticos team mates. Such a shame we were robbed of the chance to witness it.
Agree 💯 !! The whole world witnessed how in 2002, Korea bribed all the way to the Semi-finals!! Those referees involved in the Korea games got caught months later taking bribes again and were sacked!! The current FIFA President is a protégé of the corrupt Sepp Blatter!! FIFA is a Disgrace!!
UEFA should pull out of FIFA and with Five Top teams from South America should have a rival World Cup!! That will kill off this corrupted FIFA for good!!
It was very blatant but not more blatant than 1978 or 1934
argentina getting some cheezy penalties in almost every game they play is proof of fix
Just like world cup 2022 rigged to let Messi have his world cup before retirement or his last world cup at least.
"FIFA's corrupt president" is the most redundant phrase ever uttered.
Some minor corrections / points:
The 1930 referee was not "made aware of his mistake", he had no option but to restart the match as he caused a minor riot.
Add to 1934, opponents of Giuseppe Meazza were not impressed with his over physical approach during matches and complained to no avail, another helping hand for Italy to win the tournament.
It is said to be rumour that Turkey qualified as a result of a blindfolded boy drawing them out, FIFA's official stance is that it was decided by coin toss. However if you check their website now on their factsheet, it does say that it was done by Luigi Franco Gemma, so FIFA may have changed their stance on that one over time.
The injections West Germany took in 1958 were later found to be an amphetamine called Pervitin. This was discovered via an investigation commissioned by the German authorities and conducted by Leipzig University 50 years later.
Before Sindelar's death, he scored against Germany and celebrated wildly in front of the watching Adolf Hitler...
1998 world cup was lost by brazil so they can host the 2014 edition and france can be winners while hosting
In 1982 you missed the France-Kuwait game, where France scored and the brother of the Emir told the Soviet referee to disallow the goal. France went on to win 4-1, but the referee was sent home
The matter with close calls is that no matter what team gets the call, one team will be mad and call it a paid ref, or a fixed match, cheating, or corruption.
"Has Every FIFA World Cup Been Fixed?"..No, they're all still broken.
It's clear 2022 is for Argentina. They receive all the calls and penalty calls and it's clear France received no calls but still made it. I'm sure a lot of bad calls will be made against France in the final game
Nao era pro brazil ganhar esse mundial? . quando o brasil vai ganhar ?
The players commentators officials already know the outcome, they're all in it together.
@@thaizecandido6087 Era para a gente ganhar se os arbitros fossem competentes
What do you expect from FIFArgentina 💀
France were literally favoured against Morocco and England...also the 2018 world cup
Excellent and entertaining video.
Just on the point regarding Platini's 'confession' that France 98 was set up so that Brazil and France would meet in the Final, my recollection is that he said that the draw was designed to produce this outcome. However, that's nothing peculiar to that particular tournament, as just about every World Cup draw has been designed to achieve this end as far as I can see. Basically, if both hosts and holders win their first round groups, they will be kept apart until the Final.
Also, more and more material I have read on the 1966 World Cup makes me think that something dodgy was going on there. There is a great article in the Guardian on the non-English view of that tournament, and it does seem that South American teams in particular were dealt with appallingly by the officials. Obviously, there was some outrageous behaviour (particularly by the Uruguayans), but generally they did not get the rub of the green, and in some cases were kicked about with virtual impunity. Some choices of referees were a bit strange at times as well. And I see a lot of commenters have already alluded to England being allowed play all of their matches at Wembley. While not exactly at 1934 or 1978 levels of skullduggery, there's not much to warm the heart in the England 66 World Cup.
When a referee(George McCabe) has a wikipedia page just to talk about his 1966 WC match, you know he f*cked up.
DAY 47: Hey Alfie, could you do a video on the life, career, controversies and tragedy of Justin Fashanu. It'd be your best video yet and it's a criminally underheard story. ❤️
Yes. Yes they have. Thank you for bringing this to everyone's attention.
Qatar haven´t fixed it for their national team, but they have for their national assets... (Messi, Mbappé)
This aged really well🌚
Well messi won the wc.
I said something similar myself. How convenient that Messi won the cup and Mbappe was top scorer with debatable penalty calls
They tried to bribe Ecuador to take a dive against Qatar in the group stage.
@@thedoc225ify only 1 was debateable
Home soil is a huge advantage. Just look at 1966. No way did Jeff Hurts go in. As well Frank Lampard goal in Germany.
Always good to see South Africa mentioned 😎 do a video on where the South African national team is now, 12 years later? The "legacy" of the world Cup and our FA head being found guilty of bribing fifa for the hosting rights, yet he still remains our fa head...
In 2006. I remember Italy and Australia were drawn at extra time and then the Italian guy tripped over himself in the box and got a pk. Australia had a great goal keeper and they didnt want to take the risk that a no name country would get through over Italy.
An aussie looking for excuses why their team lost to italy 🤣
@@ThrE3-GeS how is this an excuse???
2022 the MOST FIXED AND RIGGED world cup ever
Cry salty European
Learn the rules of the game
@@GalacticNovaOverlord Dry your tears and find a brain for your empty head 😭💔💀
It's a disgrace 🤮 FIFArgentina 🤮
The football called "JOBULANI" is interesting as the Freemason God is known as Jan-Bul-On. Just a coincidence, I am sure.
English hypocrisy never ceases to amaze. In 66 ' QF England faced Argentina with a german referee (Rudolf Kreitlein). It wasnt halftime and the referee already have shown 3 yellow cards and 1 red to the argentinian side. They ended up winning (robbing) 1-0 with a late goal in second half. Also in another quarterfinal game, Germany played Uruguay with an english as a referee (Jim Finney) and surprise surprise, the same M.O. 2 red cards and 2 yellow for the southamericans and Germany went on to win 4-0. (The president of FIFA at the time was english)
We can all agree that the english have always been the biggest hypocrites in the game. I dont understand how they´ve got the nerve to accuse anyone of cheating.
Italy, Argentina and Uruguay have won 2 World cups each with stuff like that and even worse
@@joegilbert3149 I see you adressed my points.. good post
In the 1994 WC opening ceremony, Diana Ross was supposed to kick a giant ball into a goal, breaking it in half. She shanked it like David Batty super spoon, the ball went well wide and the goal broke anyway. DODGY AF.
I'm just watching Chile v Italy in 1962 now...two minutes in, and the ref's already had to call a ceasefire - it's a free kick to Italy about 40 yards out. Centre-half doesn't look too pleased to have to play a bit of football, but worry not! He hoofs the ball nonchalantly into the stratosphere, hostilities resume and we're straight back into war. My god, another 88 minutes of this...
I hear a football match broke out...!
4:52 The gentleman holding the ball in this shot later went on to star as a supporting role in Police Squad and the Naked Gun movies 😂